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Nelson Mandingo posted:MTV played actual music and it wasn't reality television shows. The morality police church ladies had moved on from the Simpsons, and Beavis and Butthead became the hot new thing that was corrupting the youth. They could rip on whatever music videos they wanted, because back then, getting your music on MTV, which was the promotional platform, basically meant signing over any and all rights to them in blood. Also one of the biggest movies of the year was about Robin Williams crossdressing. That was the joke.
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93 was pretty cool as far as years go. Doom came out that year which was awesome. Computers were still interesting rather than just appliances.
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Tarkus posted:93 was pretty cool as far as years go. Doom came out that year which was awesome. Computers were still interesting rather than just appliances. oh yeah i also remember playing doom shareware for the very first time while eating little caesar's which definitely tasted better back then and wasnt just my imagination
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GABA ghoul posted:Smoking indoors, smoking everywhere. Very cheap cigarettes. An average wage could buy enough of them to fill a swimming pool and swim in it It's weird to think how desensitized to smoking I was since I was basically in a perpetual cloud of smoke since birth, as my parents smoked in the house, in the car, and basically anywhere they could. When I got to high school, the bathrooms were basically in a perpetual fog, because something like 30% of high school kids smoked. Now, even if someone smokes outside, the stench on their clothes is extremely noticeable. I recently read something about how a lot of kids who were frequently "car sick" back when weren't actually sick from the motion of the vehicle, but because they were in a car with two smoking parents and no ventilation, which resulted in nicotine poisoning.
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Dec 5, 2023 14:07
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I think '93 was the year we got the SNES. I remember my brother throwing a fit because he'd rather we got a sega. Pretty good year.
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Couple of childhood memories from  - concrete, broken concrete everywhere. even sunny days were gray. everything was dilapidated and rotting, holding together by sticky tape, nylon strings and cardboard. I still am shocked sometimes when I visit my old place and see how nice everything has become, but there are still pockets of old darkness if you know where to look for them. - horrible, clownish, unfashionable clothes. kids looked like clowns without make-up. everyone dressed at second-hand stores, and those were everywhere. new clothes were a synonym for luxury. - public drunkennes was socially acceptable. - you had a very high chance being beaten up by a bald hooligan in ortalion sportswear in the broad daylight. in my town there were no-go streets after dark. it was a fact of life. - having a family in Germany, France or USA basically meant you had the best stuff in your circle. most of my LEGO sets were brought by my family in Italy, because here the sets were prohibitvely expensive. - LEGO was the height od every boys' dreams. it was Barbies for girls, or those dolls that you could feed. - everything "good" was imported. basically if you were importing anything from the West, or you had any kind of contacts, you could become rich very easily. a lot of people did. - Cartoon Network showed up on cable. Tons of tedious Hanna-Barbera shows. And The Moxy Show lol - if somebody had a computer, it was nearly certainly a C64, Atari XL, maybe an Amiga. My father bought a PC for his business and only years later I understood how avant-garde this purchase was back then. basically this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0vXhwYDfOA just look at the surroundings.
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In 1993, my sister graduated from college and bought herself a nice 1990 Chrysler LeBaron convertible as a treat. That car was fuckin’ radical and was the first (and to date only) convertible car I ever rode around in (and eventually drove). But since it was a Chrysler, lol the head gasket blew after five years, but she had it fixed. Then, since it was still a Chrysler, lol it was giving her electrical problems soon thereafter and she traded it in after only owning it for about seven years.
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I don't recall 93 because either I was black out drunk all the time or because I was only 2 years old. Hard to say.
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Dec 5, 2023 15:19
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basically just sub "1993" into White Zombie's "1965"
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Genesplicer posted:I had been married since late 1989 (Still am!), and Mystery Science Theater 3000 was our go-to decompression show. We were teachers (Still are!) and that show was a great stress reliever. Lots of laughs. My wife was born right around when you were married. I don't know why that is going to stick with me but it absolutely will. Can't comment on 1993 though, wasn't born but it sounds like a real rear end goofball of a year.
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Dec 5, 2023 15:28
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HonorableTB posted:Go to https://my90stv.com and filter by 1993, turn on playlist shuffling and off you go. Works for every year in every decade from 1950-2009 This is cool
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HonorableTB posted:Go to https://my90stv.com and filter by 1993, turn on playlist shuffling and off you go. Works for every year in every decade from 1950-2009 this owns all i remember is i went to legoland billund and to a french monkey zoo. so 1993 was good and bad
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Dec 5, 2023 15:47
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My parents ran a family video store, so I watched a bunch of horror and action movies a 5 year old shouldn't... I think I turned out ok. Also Jurassic Park toys were awesome, they had battle damage. I still have a couple on my nerd wall. Somewhere in my boxes I have the ford explorer with battle damage and with additional little edgar damage. Also freaking micromachines! Anyway, violence and toys to recreate violence is how I sum up 1993.
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Dec 5, 2023 15:57
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HBO and other premium channels would do free weekends and you could tape hit movies such as Terminator 2: Judgement Day with your VCR and have them on VHS. You could record 6-8 movies in a weekend if you were lucky and vigilant. Most of the movies I had on tape as a kid were from this. A quick google search shows they still sort of do this but these days it doesn't mean much 20 Blunts posted:basically just sub "1993" into White Zombie's "1965" THREE THREE THREE
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Dec 5, 2023 16:04
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I kissed a girl for the first time, that's all I remember.
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Had the best flannel shirts I ever owned, which is kinda depressing. I wasn't into Grunge tho, big They Might Be Giants fan then. Here's a 120 Minutes archive that's fun to poke around in: https://120minutes.org/1993/ I think that's when we bought our Mac Performa. The car was a Plymouth Grand Voyager. I had a friend on the bus tell me about the message boards he accessed with his Commodore 64, and that's as close to the World Wide Web as I wanted to get.
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I miss landlines, in many ways. Obviously a mobile phone has enormous convenience, but it comes at a cost. With the landline, once you left, the phone ceased to exist. In retrospect it seems very nice.
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Iirc 1993 was an excellent rock skipping year. Them rocks fuckin bounced
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Dec 5, 2023 16:27
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That @90sartschool Instagram account Exactly like that
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redshirt posted:I miss landlines, in many ways. Obviously a mobile phone has enormous convenience, but it comes at a cost. With the landline, once you left, the phone ceased to exist. In retrospect it seems very nice. you can have this in 2023 if you leave your phone at home
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WrestleMania was really bad that year.
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Hell if I know! I am in the same boat as the OP here, I was like, 4 maybe 5 years old at the time and didn't have much of a concept of "years", or indeed, of the world at large. I think I remember being taken to the library for storytime and going to the park a lot? Things kind of blend together a lot back that far.
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Cactus Ghost posted:you can have this in 2023 if you leave your phone at home It's not the same. Kinda like everyone has to be on the same page. There's no going back.
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GABA ghoul posted:Smoking indoors, smoking everywhere. Very cheap cigarettes. An average wage could buy enough of them to fill a swimming pool and swim in it Depends on where you were. Some places were already banning it from restaurants.
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You could just hang out at the airport. You didn't need a ticket or reason to be there or anything. I knew people who used to shop at Philly International.
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the Stone Temple Pilots
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I remember going to birthday parties for my cousins and pretty much every one of the adults smoked while they were happening. Like they'd just sit around the table and chain smoke while they talked and it'd just linger.
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It was pretty cool if you were a kid but realistically crime in the US hit historic highs in 92-93 and it was still a recession. Anyway just check youtube for VHS uploads of TV from that time or home movies. From 1994-1997 it seemed like pop culture shifted into a whole different decade
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I was a space kid and watched the Hubble getting its corrective optics live on NASA TV. The Bulls were pretty popular. Rush Limbaugh shot to godawful stardom thanks to his late night TV show and hate boner for the Clintons. Letterman left NBC and started the Late Show on CBS. That was a big deal for us night owls. Conan started Late Night. Also, his Simpsons monorail episode aired. Deep Space 9 began. See you in 23 hours, peace!
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je1 healthcare posted:It was pretty cool if you were a kid but realistically crime in the US hit historic highs in 92-93 and it was still a recession. I bitched about the economy all the time as an excuse for my lackadaisical job search. Cuz it was true!
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shyduck posted:You could just hang out at the airport. You didn't need a ticket or reason to be there or anything. I knew people who used to shop at Philly International. Whenever someone was coming to or going from the airport, we'd go and stop at the candy shop there before meeting or seeing them off at the gate. On the flipside, the airport was ground zero for panhandlers, religious evangelists, and people advertising their politics. je1 healthcare posted:It was pretty cool if you were a kid but realistically crime in the US hit historic highs in 92-93 and it was still a recession. Gangs. Gangs everywhere. Every kid was on drugs and in a gang. In fact, your kids are on drugs and in a gang. Tune in and we'll show you how to search their room for the telltale signs. Seriously though, my suburban, white, Catholic grade school had the cops coming in to talk to parents about gangs and how to spot if we were in one. It was the era of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7g4ZO4jge8
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Someone mentioned Cartoon Network launching in 1992, Comedy Central had just launched in 1991 as well and in most places they'd managed to get them one channel away from each other - so you could flip from comedy to cartoons back to comedy again as the mood struck you. memories of flipping channels one station over when the other would have commercials lol also Sailor Moon started airing in Japan 1992, after the manga got super popular in 1991. If you ever want to feel really old, just know that Sailor Moon's legit birthdate (so that she could be a teenager in the early 90s) is June 30, 1978
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shyduck posted:You could just hang out at the airport. You didn't need a ticket or reason to be there or anything. I knew people who used to shop at Philly International. There was always some huge welcoming party blocking up the exit from the plane. It was really annoying.
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I think we got a sega genesis that year so I probably just played a lot of sonic because I was 5
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We also had Castle of Illusions which is a banger, pretty sure those were the only two games we had for quite awhile
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A lot like 1992 but not quite like 1994
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Spinz posted:I was HOT and didn't know it really, thought I was cute at best rarely you still are I was in grade 8 and was a total fuckin terrorist. Failed all three terms of french class. I was hoping to get a 44 for all three but got a 49 in my last term. My french teacher brought a video camera to class to get me and some friends on tape causing poo poo, and we got a week long in school suspension from french class. It was supposed to be punishment I guess, but it was a vacation for us. We got sent down to some room near the principal's office and just hung out, talked poo poo and hosed around for the 40 minutes or so that the class was for a week. It was NOT punishment. Also got sent down to the office multiple times a week for generally being a smart rear end or causing various amounts of poo poo. Tried smoking for the first time (didn't inhale). Spray painted graffiti on the back of the school, didn't get caught but it wasn't particularly good graffiti, just "mr(teacher) sucks, Mrs. (other teacher) is a bitch" and so on. Te Simpsons were still good. I'd never seen Beavis and Butthead but my friend who had satellite and could get MTV told me they were way cooler than Ren and Stimpy. While watching TV, changing channels on commercials always included a stop at much music to see if there was a good video on before flipping to the other show you were watching. My brother had all the Wolfenstein games which was pretty sweet.
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You couldn't give away an apartment / house in bedford stuyvesant or bushwick.
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GABA ghoul posted:Smoking indoors, smoking everywhere. Very cheap cigarettes. An average wage could buy enough of them to fill a swimming pool and swim in it Came to post this but was beaten. Everything had a tinge of sickly yellow from everyone smoking non-stop everywhere. Nothing made dinner taste better than the rich scent of Marlboro being burned like incense.
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lmao rural wisconsin i remember everybody smoking like that up until about 2008
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